Bomber courtesy of Marsiblursi. Pours very dark reddish brown, almost black, with a small creamy pale brown head that quickly dissipates while leaving a small trace on the glass. Smell is sweet with dark roast coffee, pine, grapefruit juice, bitter chocolate, alcohol, resinous wood, salty liquorice, vanilla and hints of wet leaves and green uncooked vegetables. Taste is slightly sweet and bitter with pine, burnt wood, heavily roasted malts, smoked ham, dark roast coffee, fresh grass, grapefruit juice, orange peal, toffee, burnt caramel, liquorice fudge and bitter chocolate. Mouthfeel is dry, tiny oily bitter and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with burnt caramel, orange peal, fresh grass, grapefruit peal, coffee and liquorice.

Tasting at Papsø’s
Black color. Medium aroma, and better flavor of chocolate and roasted malt; average sweetness, and bold bitterness.
Good.

Bottled. A dark amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, bread, alcohol, and over ripe fruits, leading to a dry finish.

22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is frui hoppy and dense dark malty. Toasted malty, pine and bitter. Dry and bitter. Roasted and dark malty. Light herbal mild spiced.

cloudy brown, small light brown head. mild roasted malty aroma, flavor is roasted malts, faint licorice, very dry.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of Elwood. Pours a clear dark, reddish brown with a rich, beige head. Roasty nose, spicy, licoricey, a little citrus character. Bitter finish. Not the most sophisticated, but quite ok. 160612

22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, 9/23/2011 bottle code on the bottom. Pours pitch black color with a dense 2 finger tan head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Some good spotty lacing on the glass. Aromas of big apple skin, roasted malt, chocolate, biscuit, and toast. Aromas are very off balanced, way too much apple aromas. Something went wrong here. Taste of big dark chocolate, roasted malt, toast, biscuit, char, coffee, herbal, pine, and earthy spiciness. Fair amount of bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, char, pine, and herbal spiciness for a good bit. Nice balance of roasted flavors with hop bitterness; with a very robust amount of roasted flavors. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy and slightly slick mouthfeel. Alcohol is very well hidden at 9.5%; with hardly any warming noticed after the finish. Very smooth to sip on. Overall this is a nice black IPA that is quite robust with roasted flavors. Other than the obvious fermentation flaws in aromas with this particular bottle, it was still quite enjoyable. I will have to revisit this again and hope I get a better bottle.

Bomber from Half Time. Pours very black with a transient tan head. Aroma of dark burnt malt, chocolate and something like herbal hop. And coffee? Full bodied. Flavor is very chocolate, hints of burnt malt, more than hints of coffee, and a fair amount of varying hop. Varying meaning I can’t tell what it is. Seems noble/herbal, but there’s so much dark flavor it’s hard to break this stuff down. There’s a barley wine aspect. There’s an IS aspect. It’s finishing burnt, chocolate, dry and pretty hoppy. There’s just way too much going on with this. Not that that’s a bad thing.

Pours a dark brown, almost (not quite) black, with average head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, licorice. Flavor is a very strong roasted-malt (almost like a burnt toast), with some coffee and chocolate, etc., but with the addition of a fairly strong, underlying hop bitterness. This is a very interesting beer.

Can I say I hate wax dipped bottle heads, it took friggin 10 minutes to get this open. Pours thick black with sprucey nose. tastes of burnt toast, dark chocolate, earth, bitter hops. Finishes chalky and dry. nice interesting brew